Staff Software Engineer, Data Platform

Built is looking for a Staff Software Engineer to join the Data Platform team and lead the next generation of customer-facing data product experiences.

In this role, you will build the application layer where data products are discovered, accessed, and used by customers. You will work across frontend, backend, APIs, services, and data-backed application workflows to turn platform capabilities into intuitive product experiences.

What You’ll Do

• Lead the design and delivery of the application-facing data products platform, including product surfaces, backend services, APIs, frontend flows, and reusable patterns.
• Build full-stack customer experiences using TypeScript, React, Node.js, Python, and related technologies.
• Partner with Product to shape ambiguous ideas into useful customer workflows and offer practical alternatives.
• Turn data science prototypes, analytics concepts, and platform capabilities into production-grade product experiences.
• Bring strong software engineering practices through technical design, code review, mentoring, testing, and delivery patterns.
• Help data engineers expand into software engineering work across frontend, backend, APIs, and production readiness.
• Collaborate where data products integrate with application surfaces, platform capabilities, agents, or customer workflows.
• Use customer signals, usage data, product feedback, and support insights to guide engineering decisions.

Skills and Experience Required

• Staff-level software engineering experience leading ambiguous, customer-facing product initiatives from idea through production.
• Strong product judgment and ability to assess customer value in workflows and requirements.
• Full-stack web application experience with backend-leaning depth.
• Strong experience with TypeScript, Node.js, React, and modern web application architecture.
• Experience with Python or ability to work effectively in Python-based systems.
• Experience designing APIs, service boundaries, reusable application patterns, and production backend systems.
• Ability to write high-quality, maintainable code with strong testing, readability, observability, and operational ownership practices.
• Strong technical communication skills including design documentation and architecture discussions.
• Collaborative leadership and mentoring ability.

Preferred

• Experience building data-heavy product experiences such as analytics products, reporting workflows, benchmarking tools, dashboards, or decision-support products.
• Experience working with data engineers, analytics engineers, or data scientists to productionize prototypes.
• Experience with AI or agentic product experiences.
• Familiarity with Snowflake, dbt, Kafka, Flink, Materialize, or similar data platform technologies.
• Experience in fintech, lending, banking, construction, real estate, compliance-heavy SaaS, or similar domains.
• Experience with product instrumentation, activation metrics, experimentation, and usage-based iteration.
• Experience mentoring engineers from adjacent disciplines into stronger software engineering practices.

Benefits

• Salary range: $170,000 - $240,000 USD per year.
• Equity as part of total compensation.
• Medical, dental, and vision coverage.
• Unlimited PTO policy.
• 401k with match and expedited vesting.
• Learning grant program for professional development.